Republican Congressman Tom Cotton will host a campaign barbecue dinner 5-7 p.m. Tuesday at the Dardanelle Community Center where he will announce plans for his political future.

Cotton, 36, lives in Dardanelle where he grew up on his family’s farm. He is a sixth-generation Arkansan who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and went on to graduate Harvard Law School in June 2002.

Cotton joined the United States Army in 2005 and was honorably discharged in 2009. He is a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and received a Bronze Star and Combat Infantryman Badge.

After leaving active duty, he went to work for McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm, until returning to Dardanelle. He became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Arkansas’s fourth congressional district when he won 59 percent of the vote in the 2012 general election.

The community center is located at 2011 State Highway 22 in Dardanelle. For more information about Cotton’s campaign, visit www.tomcotton.com.